If correct, then the Medog dam will be shorter than the 116-m Zangmu dam — also a run-of-the-river project — built further upstream on Yarlung Tsangpo, and commissioned in 2015. Unique bend ...

In December 2024, China unveiled plans for what could become the world’s largest hydropower project, the Medog Dam, on the lower Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India. This ...

The dam, which will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, could generate three times more energy than the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest hydropower plant.